My question is, how specific does one have to get? Fuzzy dice, or anything hanging from a mirror? DVD player channel, or any software encapsulated as a channel? Homebrew Channel doesn't provide anything (legal) that directly competes with existing channels.
Well, I've failed to capture some of the dynamic of the classroom. The quiz is at the start of class and the teacher calls on you to answer the question. And he'll sit there for 30 seconds waiting for an answer, if you don't know. This is basically the socratic method, also employed in law schools. If you imagine a quiz as "a b c or d" then yea, that won't translate to the endless possibilities of IT. Traditional computerized quizzes don't capture that, which is why it's done in writing and reviewed by a living person. Yet another reason this BYU Professor is mostly wrong.
The situation is highly dependent on the business. Some places are get-it-fixed-now organizations that have one guy reporting to the only owner, with adhoc "it works so who cares how" technology. Other places require documentation, change plans and so on because their clients are paying 80k a month for uptime guarantees. They go in and analyze stuff before it goes wrong. The means are just as important as the ends; if your update requires a server reboot, that's something the client needs to know.
Of course they didn't have youtube back when I was in college, but had they offered the choice of going to such a lecture or watching it online, I would have saved the trip and watched it online.
They didn't have Youtube when I was in college either. Instead we had one or two professors who recorded their lectures and made them available online. This didn't so much make the college classroom obsolete as change it. You were expected to watch the lectures on your own time, and be prepared to take an attendance quiz on the material at the start of class.
The role a college plays is twofold: firstly, discipline. Rigorous study involves tackling some challenging material instead of skipping that chapter. It means meeting a schedule. Those attendance quizzes are a reckoning call; if you don't know what you should, it will be self evident. In a sense, teachers play the same role as a personal fitness trainer.
The second role a college plays is congregation. It brings reasonably smart people together on a regular schedule, all interested (in some broad sense, at least) in the same topic. By way of the first role, you also know that these people are generally on the same page as you, similar to a book club. Congregation also brings in cooperational learning. If you didn't know an answer to the quiz question, you're now in the same room as 20-30 other people, with at least 1 that knows the answer. Working on group projects can be fun or a challenge, and is something that distance education students generally miss out on. And it does help in networking. Your friend gets a job at some awesome company, and you stay on the job hunt or take a job elsewhere that you end up hating. If your friend has an idea of your technical skills and background, he might be able to move your resume through the bureaucracy more efficiently than would otherwise be the case.
They're actually fairly similar. You build a model governing a toy universe, and set it to motion from a given state. If the results look like what you see in the real world, that's evidence for the model's accuracy. I have no idea how Einstein intended to observe the time dialation effects at the speed of light, however.
>Your response is typical of IT (and other) professionals who presume to know users want, rather than listening to what they actually want.
No, the typical response is to ask why something or other is required, when IT believes the requirement is unreasonable or impossible or undesirable. The typical response to IT asking why people want something is an assault on IT, declaring IT workers never give what people want, even when they've just been asked a deep question about their goals in a very reasonable attempt to understand the people they serve.
Unfortunately, Ask Slashdot rarely provides the opportunity for this back-and-forth. So instead you have to assume some motivation or not answer the question at all.
The good news is that it's moving in that direction. libdrm is not a Digitial Restriction Manager, but a Direct Rendering Manager. Here's the state of the art from nearly a year ago. I hope things have continued forward from there.
Congratulations, you've so enshrined the Constitution so as to invite the very tyranny that was fought over two centuries ago. Anonymous speech is crucial to voicing intelligent opinion unfavorable to the powers that be. So much so, that the very people who built the Constitution you cherish dared not publish the Federal Papers under their actual names. Somehow, the entire nation has read the 9th amendment and looked the other way.
Yes, some people do go directly into a Master's program, but the MBA is more unique. I'd generally argue that you should get some work experience before getting a Master's, but in Engineering fields this is basically a kiss of death as one generally has a family by this point and is not in a position to slave like this.
In my experience, its the international grad students who're monopolizing the computers. They often don't have internet or a computer at their apartment I guess. There's also a rush before class to finish up and print homework due at the start of class.
Fortunately, the Linux lab is usually much more serene.
After researching this topic, I'm convinced that although replacing a dead drive in an ADM is possible - Apple explicitly does not prevent it - it's not a good idea if the Xserve in question is a production server. If you do decide to go this route, I strongly recommend that you get a drive that's designed for RAID or server use.
I'm pretty sure the I in raid stands for "inexpensive". Isn't the whole point of RAID to avoid paying extra for high performance disks?
They won't eat their losses; Berkshire Hathaway underwrote a number of 2nd payment CDS. I.e., if your bond defaulted, and your primary CDS defaulted, Berkshire would cover it. If you can buy a bond and insure it several ways over and still earn more than a treasury, it seems less like gambling and more like arbitrage investing.
The people who were really gambling here was AIG. Normal counterparties are limited by the amount of capital they can raise to collateralize the insurance agreement, but as an AAA company they underwrote far more than even their AAA status could finance should the need arise. Because of that, the arbitrage opportunity didn't gradually fade, it stuck around and then disappeared one day.
That said, there's also a lot of people who were gambling with CDS's. CDS is insurance plain and simple, which is why both Berkshire and AIG are in on the business. The difference being that normal insurance is regulated with reserve requirements and inurable interests. I.e. you can't buy life insurance on someone else. But it seems you can buy corporate life insurance without working or investing with them. When there's more money to be paid out when a company fails versus than it's market capital, you're looking at a corporate assassination market.
As a UI Designer, let me say I really doubt this. There just simply aren't the incentives for a designer to work on OSS as there are for a developer.
You might look at the history of Jokosher, for insights on how to build a project where coders aren't king. No, it's not a game, but it at least entertainment related.
"Learning how to use logic and transform abstract human concepts into a formal logic representation is the true base skill for programmers."
Which is why we teach it to freshmen. Sadly, most of them find the subject so difficult they sell their book and try their hardest to forget they ever knew it. I've literally had Computer Engineering friends tell me that logic started at 0 and ended at 1. Nothing more complicated than that should exist, he asserted.
Do yourself a favor, go find the richest, most Republican suburb you can, and find its mall. Time how long it takes from stepping out of your car to finding Army recruiters. Move towards the urban center and repeat this experiment every five miles.
Feel free to stop when you can't make it to the mall doors anymore. Then look around, and look at the economic conditions people there live in. Ask yourself whether you feel "desperation" or "patriotism".
Gantt charts are project planning tools, pure and simple. An experiment: open up your Gantt chart and circle the software design. I don't like UML, but its at least attempting to describe computer programs at some level. Specification change, time constraints and long term support are not engineering topics; they're management topics usually grouped in "engineering management" or "project management". Analysis of these may suggest skimping on engineering costs is crucial to maximizing profits, but lets not pretend not doing engineering is the same as engineering.
Perhaps my systems background pollutes my interpretation of engineering as something where correctness and performance are deliverables, and unbiased professional judgment is required for public safety. But I really do there can be more to engineering software than what occurs when you practice it on the cheap.
Note - the response this thread is replying to was not 'well, he'll probably need a Masters or PhD for that particular area', it was 'go do some open source kernel hacking'.
Then either you or the poster misunderstands the relationship between these two. It's not an either/or situation. If you want to work on an OS kernel, go get a Masters or PhD and do open source kernel hacking in the process of your thesis.
It's how Torvalds started the damn project, and how countless others found the time to learn the details. In fact, I'm hard pressed to come up with any field where hiring companies provide significant training and career development. At best, you get reimbursed for tuition (for MBAs, etc), or are required to take extra corporate training for things universities either don't teach or can't (trade secrets). But nothing along the lines of hiring novices and training them to be experts.
P.S. JUnit? What kind of compiler design were you doing in Java? Were you porting some interpreted language to the JVM (ala JRuby)?
We were writing a translator to go from a toy version of Java (java without reflections and threading) to C. Java is a primary language ANTLR supports, and has some nice features. The compiler was written in Java, but neither the target nor the output were Java(tm).
Exactly. This is actually the entire point of my post. Computer science is not delivering a product - software engineering is.
I think your definition of software engineering isn't engineering at all. What you describe is what happens when there's no standard of quality for output or the "engineers" themselves. If your point is that CS academics don't practice software engineering by delivering products, they do so no less than any other engineering discipline, which also have academics instructing students and doing research. Wasn't Claude Shannon's master thesis engineering?
If decision making and design isn't backed by analysis, then in no way are you engaged in the practice of engineering. When those decisions are instead influenced by time to delivery, you're just another bad project manager.
It's called school. You actually pay people to train you, so you can work for someone else. What a bunch of suckers, right? If you want to do systems work today, you'll need some grad level work in order to contribute. At the very least, the mandatory undergrad OS courses don't qualify you to write an OS, for the simple fact you can't learn everything you need in 4 months.
You know, my grad level compilers course used SVN for revision control, JUnit for testing, and Design Patterns out the wazzoo. I think your assertion that CS and software engineering are different is mistaken. Revision control and bug databases are both applications of computing, and can and do have formal CS concepts applied to them.
The fact that these tools are not widely used in CS I dispute, but even if this is the case, I submit that academics are in the business of research not delivering a product. An implementation that demonstrates the runtime of quicksort is nice, but I'd be much more interested in the underlying algorithm than a specific bug free binary. Ultimately, I think these sorts of libraries are where the nitty gritty of CS and engineering shine. Sorting routines often do a "median of three" pivot, and fall back to insert sorts for recursive inputs smaller than say 10. Making these choices requires a deep understanding of both the theory and pragmatic need to test it against reality.
Well, the dev version's slated for release shortly. But even then, ext4 will not be default. On the other hand, I have heard calls to make ext4 default for the next Fedora, whenever that is. Please direct your anger and abuse their way, please;-)
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My question is, how specific does one have to get? Fuzzy dice, or anything hanging from a mirror? DVD player channel, or any software encapsulated as a channel? Homebrew Channel doesn't provide anything (legal) that directly competes with existing channels.
Except if you test it, it doesn't appear to work, which is probably why it was hidden.
Well, I've failed to capture some of the dynamic of the classroom. The quiz is at the start of class and the teacher calls on you to answer the question. And he'll sit there for 30 seconds waiting for an answer, if you don't know. This is basically the socratic method, also employed in law schools. If you imagine a quiz as "a b c or d" then yea, that won't translate to the endless possibilities of IT. Traditional computerized quizzes don't capture that, which is why it's done in writing and reviewed by a living person. Yet another reason this BYU Professor is mostly wrong.
The situation is highly dependent on the business. Some places are get-it-fixed-now organizations that have one guy reporting to the only owner, with adhoc "it works so who cares how" technology. Other places require documentation, change plans and so on because their clients are paying 80k a month for uptime guarantees. They go in and analyze stuff before it goes wrong. The means are just as important as the ends; if your update requires a server reboot, that's something the client needs to know.
They didn't have Youtube when I was in college either. Instead we had one or two professors who recorded their lectures and made them available online. This didn't so much make the college classroom obsolete as change it. You were expected to watch the lectures on your own time, and be prepared to take an attendance quiz on the material at the start of class.
The role a college plays is twofold: firstly, discipline. Rigorous study involves tackling some challenging material instead of skipping that chapter. It means meeting a schedule. Those attendance quizzes are a reckoning call; if you don't know what you should, it will be self evident. In a sense, teachers play the same role as a personal fitness trainer.
The second role a college plays is congregation. It brings reasonably smart people together on a regular schedule, all interested (in some broad sense, at least) in the same topic. By way of the first role, you also know that these people are generally on the same page as you, similar to a book club. Congregation also brings in cooperational learning. If you didn't know an answer to the quiz question, you're now in the same room as 20-30 other people, with at least 1 that knows the answer. Working on group projects can be fun or a challenge, and is something that distance education students generally miss out on. And it does help in networking. Your friend gets a job at some awesome company, and you stay on the job hunt or take a job elsewhere that you end up hating. If your friend has an idea of your technical skills and background, he might be able to move your resume through the bureaucracy more efficiently than would otherwise be the case.
I'm reasonably certain nouveau supports dual monitors. I may need to test on my laptop again, but it's been working quite nicely for the most part.
They're actually fairly similar. You build a model governing a toy universe, and set it to motion from a given state. If the results look like what you see in the real world, that's evidence for the model's accuracy. I have no idea how Einstein intended to observe the time dialation effects at the speed of light, however.
More or less I found out that all these machines are pieces of crap.
But they've been certified by a democrat and a republican before use!
No, the typical response is to ask why something or other is required, when IT believes the requirement is unreasonable or impossible or undesirable. The typical response to IT asking why people want something is an assault on IT, declaring IT workers never give what people want, even when they've just been asked a deep question about their goals in a very reasonable attempt to understand the people they serve.
Unfortunately, Ask Slashdot rarely provides the opportunity for this back-and-forth. So instead you have to assume some motivation or not answer the question at all.
The good news is that it's moving in that direction. libdrm is not a Digitial Restriction Manager, but a Direct Rendering Manager. Here's the state of the art from nearly a year ago. I hope things have continued forward from there.
Congratulations, you've so enshrined the Constitution so as to invite the very tyranny that was fought over two centuries ago. Anonymous speech is crucial to voicing intelligent opinion unfavorable to the powers that be. So much so, that the very people who built the Constitution you cherish dared not publish the Federal Papers under their actual names. Somehow, the entire nation has read the 9th amendment and looked the other way.
Well played, sir.
Yes, some people do go directly into a Master's program, but the MBA is more unique. I'd generally argue that you should get some work experience before getting a Master's, but in Engineering fields this is basically a kiss of death as one generally has a family by this point and is not in a position to slave like this.
In my experience, its the international grad students who're monopolizing the computers. They often don't have internet or a computer at their apartment I guess. There's also a rush before class to finish up and print homework due at the start of class.
Fortunately, the Linux lab is usually much more serene.
I'm pretty sure the I in raid stands for "inexpensive". Isn't the whole point of RAID to avoid paying extra for high performance disks?
They won't eat their losses; Berkshire Hathaway underwrote a number of 2nd payment CDS. I.e., if your bond defaulted, and your primary CDS defaulted, Berkshire would cover it. If you can buy a bond and insure it several ways over and still earn more than a treasury, it seems less like gambling and more like arbitrage investing.
The people who were really gambling here was AIG. Normal counterparties are limited by the amount of capital they can raise to collateralize the insurance agreement, but as an AAA company they underwrote far more than even their AAA status could finance should the need arise. Because of that, the arbitrage opportunity didn't gradually fade, it stuck around and then disappeared one day.
That said, there's also a lot of people who were gambling with CDS's. CDS is insurance plain and simple, which is why both Berkshire and AIG are in on the business. The difference being that normal insurance is regulated with reserve requirements and inurable interests. I.e. you can't buy life insurance on someone else. But it seems you can buy corporate life insurance without working or investing with them. When there's more money to be paid out when a company fails versus than it's market capital, you're looking at a corporate assassination market.
Well, Northern CA is more republican, but I live in the midwest. "Jesusland", if you will.
As a UI Designer, let me say I really doubt this. There just simply aren't the incentives for a designer to work on OSS as there are for a developer.
You might look at the history of Jokosher, for insights on how to build a project where coders aren't king. No, it's not a game, but it at least entertainment related.
"Learning how to use logic and transform abstract human concepts into a formal logic representation is the true base skill for programmers."
Which is why we teach it to freshmen. Sadly, most of them find the subject so difficult they sell their book and try their hardest to forget they ever knew it. I've literally had Computer Engineering friends tell me that logic started at 0 and ended at 1. Nothing more complicated than that should exist, he asserted.
Do yourself a favor, go find the richest, most Republican suburb you can, and find its mall. Time how long it takes from stepping out of your car to finding Army recruiters. Move towards the urban center and repeat this experiment every five miles.
Feel free to stop when you can't make it to the mall doors anymore. Then look around, and look at the economic conditions people there live in. Ask yourself whether you feel "desperation" or "patriotism".
Gantt charts are project planning tools, pure and simple. An experiment: open up your Gantt chart and circle the software design. I don't like UML, but its at least attempting to describe computer programs at some level. Specification change, time constraints and long term support are not engineering topics; they're management topics usually grouped in "engineering management" or "project management". Analysis of these may suggest skimping on engineering costs is crucial to maximizing profits, but lets not pretend not doing engineering is the same as engineering.
Perhaps my systems background pollutes my interpretation of engineering as something where correctness and performance are deliverables, and unbiased professional judgment is required for public safety. But I really do there can be more to engineering software than what occurs when you practice it on the cheap.
Note - the response this thread is replying to was not 'well, he'll probably need a Masters or PhD for that particular area', it was 'go do some open source kernel hacking'.
Then either you or the poster misunderstands the relationship between these two. It's not an either/or situation. If you want to work on an OS kernel, go get a Masters or PhD and do open source kernel hacking in the process of your thesis.
It's how Torvalds started the damn project, and how countless others found the time to learn the details. In fact, I'm hard pressed to come up with any field where hiring companies provide significant training and career development. At best, you get reimbursed for tuition (for MBAs, etc), or are required to take extra corporate training for things universities either don't teach or can't (trade secrets). But nothing along the lines of hiring novices and training them to be experts.
We were writing a translator to go from a toy version of Java (java without reflections and threading) to C. Java is a primary language ANTLR supports, and has some nice features. The compiler was written in Java, but neither the target nor the output were Java(tm).
I think your definition of software engineering isn't engineering at all. What you describe is what happens when there's no standard of quality for output or the "engineers" themselves. If your point is that CS academics don't practice software engineering by delivering products, they do so no less than any other engineering discipline, which also have academics instructing students and doing research. Wasn't Claude Shannon's master thesis engineering?
If decision making and design isn't backed by analysis, then in no way are you engaged in the practice of engineering. When those decisions are instead influenced by time to delivery, you're just another bad project manager.
It's called school. You actually pay people to train you, so you can work for someone else. What a bunch of suckers, right? If you want to do systems work today, you'll need some grad level work in order to contribute. At the very least, the mandatory undergrad OS courses don't qualify you to write an OS, for the simple fact you can't learn everything you need in 4 months.
You know, my grad level compilers course used SVN for revision control, JUnit for testing, and Design Patterns out the wazzoo. I think your assertion that CS and software engineering are different is mistaken. Revision control and bug databases are both applications of computing, and can and do have formal CS concepts applied to them.
The fact that these tools are not widely used in CS I dispute, but even if this is the case, I submit that academics are in the business of research not delivering a product. An implementation that demonstrates the runtime of quicksort is nice, but I'd be much more interested in the underlying algorithm than a specific bug free binary. Ultimately, I think these sorts of libraries are where the nitty gritty of CS and engineering shine. Sorting routines often do a "median of three" pivot, and fall back to insert sorts for recursive inputs smaller than say 10. Making these choices requires a deep understanding of both the theory and pragmatic need to test it against reality.
Well, the dev version's slated for release shortly. But even then, ext4 will not be default. On the other hand, I have heard calls to make ext4 default for the next Fedora, whenever that is. Please direct your anger and abuse their way, please ;-)
AFAIK, nobody's calling for ext4 as default. Just calling for people to test it. This is a report in a development version of Ubuntu, after all.